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Underwater

2020

William Eubank

Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, T.J. Miller, Jessica Henwick ...

4.9

7,220

Adventure. Thriller. Action. Fantasy. Horror A crew of aquatic researchers work to get to safety after an earthquake devastates their subterranean laboratory. But the crew has more than the ocean seabed to fear.

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[Kristen Stewart] deserves better than 95 minutes of derivative dumbness. So does the audience (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 5)"
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"'Underwater' is hampered by some of the genre’s silliest conventions (...) but the movie nonetheless succeeds by capitalising on an elemental terror: underwater, it’s very hard to see the dangers right in front of you"
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"[It] can't come up with one original variation on the movies it's ripping off (...) Every claustrophobic space and apocalyptic crash of water registers as a slick visual trigger, yet it’s all built on top of a dramatic void"
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"An effective sci-fi thriller that acknowledges its inspirations (...) With such a tightly packed survival tale ahead of them, though, few viewers will be calling out for more character development."
		Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"It’s a good movie that got soggy, turning it into an average one instead (...) It’s a solid, competently directed regurgitation of an oft-told tale that never manages to justify its own existence (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Yolanda Machado The Wrap	"Here’s a movie with good production values, a great leading actress, and a fantastic score, yet it gets so lost trying to figure out what story it wanted to tell that it completely forgets to form a connection with the audience"
		Rosie Knight IGN	"'Underwater' is sadly less than the sum of its rather exciting parts. Kristen Stewart shines as does the potential for a better film"
		Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"A grand spectacle film that feels tailored specifically for the horror fan, one that doesn’t bother with pretension and dives straight into the horror. (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"
		Michael Joshua Rowin Slant	"If the film is so lacking in suspense, it’s because Eubank rushes through scenes and blankets them in wall-to-wall dialogue (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Don Kaye Den of Geek	"Kristen Stewart works hard to keep this soggy action/horror yarn afloat. But it really is Underwater... (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Rob Hunter Film School Rejects	"The effects and production design work to create a believable world (...) It delivers exactly what it should — thrills, scares, and some memorable visual beats"
		Molly Freeman Screen Rant	"A missable, mediocre sci-fi thriller (...) [It] lacks any substance, delivering a shallow and boring sci-fi movie (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Norman Wilner Now Toronto	"'Underwater' throws its cast into the deep end with little more than name tags, and all we can do is watch them flounder."
		Alex Hudson Exclaim!	"The thrills get a little repetitive in this claustrophobic environment, but director William Eubank effectively keeps the tension high (...) The only thing deep about the movie is the distance below sea level."
		Tim Robey Telegraph	"As viewers of this dreck, we could teach the earth’s crust a few things about being deeply bored (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Stacy Grouden entertainment.ie	"Its horrors are drowned out by shallow script, slight characterisation, and tonal confusion (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Donald Clarke Irish Times	"Nothing to see here – literally – in this murky, appalling mess (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"

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